The British cosmetics brand has shut more than 900 stores in 49 countries in support of a youth protest movement against government inaction on climate.

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Lush, a popular brand of cosmetics from the United Kingdom, has closed all of its stores globally in support of Climate Strike, a youth movement demanding governments take more action to tackle the climate crisis inspired by school-skipping Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg.

Lush has shuttered its stores at different times and days during Climate Strike Week depending on the market. In Singapore, where no students are known to be skipping school in support of Climate Strike, Lush’s five stores have closed for a few hours on Friday, opening again at 2pm.

“Lush are responding to the call from School Strike for Climate asking adults to suspend business as usual whilst they rally today to demand action on climate change,” the company said in a message on its store fronts in Singapore.

Lush has promoted its support of Climate Strike on social media in a number of markets, but not in Singapore. A Lush spokesperson told Eco-Business that the company would rather the focus be on what the youth movement is doing in Singapore, rather than brands.

In a statement shared with Eco-Business, the company said: “There can be no call stronger than children sincerely asking us to do the right thing. For this reason, Lush will stop our business-as-usual on September 20th for the [Climate] Strike. Our tills will switch off, our shops and offices will shut, our website will go onto a low energy holding page and our factories will come to a standstill. We hear our children and we stand with them.”

The Climate Strike is expected to be the largest of its kind in history, with thousands of students expected to skip school and workers take the day off to take the streets to demand more climate action from their governments.

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